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Five Reasons Why Parenting is the Best Strategy for Justice

Parents’ hearts are soft, driving them into action that has impact. 

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I Left My Church. How Do I Teach my Children Faith?

A faith community should never be a place you’re coerced or manipulated into participating—a healthy church should keep their doors wide open, both to welcome all in as well as to bless those who choose to leave.

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Should We Teach Children to Turn the Other Cheek?

Theology, as is often true, is done best from the margins, including vulnerable children. 

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Ten Reasons The Original Sin Doctrine is Damaging for Children

Original Sin relegates behaviors that are developmentally normal as proof that children are rebellious instead of exploring children’s psychology and healthy development.

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5 Ways Fundamentalism Hinders Emotional Literacy

For brain chemistry dysfunction leading to mental instability, often what people need are medication or professional therapy—not a pastor with an MDiv degree. 

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For the Deconstructing Parent

I hear parents say, “I just don’t know what to teach my children with all of my own questioning,”

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Child Abuse in the Near-Sacrifice of Isaac

Photo credit: rzrxtion (pronounced resurrection) on Visualhunt / CC BY “The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken,” says psychoanalyst Lloyd DeMause, who has uncovered extensive research that reveal pre-20th century, every single parent child relationship would be prosecuted for abuse and neglect. Infanticide, abandonment, child battery,…

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The Big O

Words and stories that are true ought to transcend age. 

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Should I Raise my Kids in Church?

Our goal should simply be to provide a safe environment for our children to live out their inherent spirituality.

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